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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) was not only one of the greatest philosophers ever but also an important educational thinker. He was, besides Kant, the most eminent philosopher of the German idealism. His first great work, Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) was of revolutionary significance. He developed in his Science of Logic (1816) a dialectical system of categories, which was, for example, for Marxist philosophy important. His later philosophical system was summarized in Encyclopedia (1818), which he began to write in Heidelberg. Later in Berlin, his philosophy became soon internationally famous. He died in cholera 1831 (on Hegel’s biography see Pinkard 2000; general introduction to his thinking Beiser 1993; Hösle 1987).
Hegel’s influence was especially for the continental philosophy – Marxism, hermeneutics, postmodernism – very important, but affected also American...
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Väyrynen, K. (2016). Hegel on Moral Development, Education, and Ethical Life. In: Peters, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_423-1
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